[tahoe-lafs-trac-stream] [Tahoe-LAFS] #2221: allow automatic use of pyOpenSSL 0.14

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#2221: allow automatic use of pyOpenSSL 0.14
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     Reporter:  daira    |      Owner:
         Type:  defect   |     Status:  new
     Priority:  major    |  Milestone:  soon
    Component:           |    Version:  1.10.0
  packaging              |   Keywords:  packaging setuptools pyopenssl
   Resolution:           |  cryptography six cffi pycparser
Launchpad Bug:           |
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Comment (by glyph):

 Replying to [comment:11 zooko]:
 > Replying to [comment:10 glyph]:
 > > It seems like eliminating zetuptoolz would be a fruitful avenue to
 pursue; why are you still stuck with it?
 >
 > Last time I considered it, which was [comment:4:ticket:2044 one and a
 half years ago], we had made seven patches to our fork, zetuptoolz, and I
 wasn't sure if those issues had also been fixed in setuptools or not.
 Nowadays I guess I would be unsure if those issues would regress if we
 switched from zetuptoolz to `wheel`…

 My understanding is that the context of those patches was a fairly
 unresponsive setuptools development team who wasn't fixing things.  The
 Python Packaging Authority is ''substantially'' more responsive to bug
 reports, and users frequently get updates.  Ironically `zetuptoolz` is now
 creating the exact situation it was created to avoid :-).

 The only setuptools bug referenced by the linked comment is
 http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue54, which, if it hasn't been fixed
 (I think maybe it has? maybe dstufft can opine directly) has been mostly
 obviated by the ecosystem's consensus converging on virtualenv and related
 toolchains to produce isolated environments.

 I want to say more things about this but I can't even find zetuptoolz's
 source code; all the old links are broken.  Where does it live now?

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